United Airlines reveals plans to buy 100 electric planes from Heart Aerospace
Jul 14, 2021 08:11 am UTC| Business Economy
United Airlines revealed on Tuesday, July 13, that it would be investing in the purchase of 100 19-seater electric planes. The American air carrier will be ordering the ES-19 battery-powered aircraft from Heart Aerospace,...
Boeing: Newly-discovered structural issues forced the planemaker to cut production of its 787 jets
Jul 14, 2021 06:57 am UTC| Business Economy
Boeing hit another snag as it tries to get back on track following the grounding of its planes due to the series of crashes in 2018 and 2019. While the company started getting new orders for jets again, it may have to halt...
Google to pay record-high $593 million in fine over French news copyright dispute
Jul 14, 2021 05:50 am UTC| Business Economy
Google was hit with a fine in France as the anti-trust regulators in the country said that it failed to comply with an order to arrange fair deals with the French news publishers for content copyright. The American tech...
Jul 14, 2021 00:42 am UTC| Economy Digital Currency
Overseas-based cryptocurrency exchanges, such as Binance, must register with South Koreas anti-money laundering body when using the won currency in serving local customers. The revised law mandating the registration...
S. Korea opens testing facility for 5G devices
Jul 14, 2021 00:30 am UTC| Economy Business
South Koreas Ministry of Science and ICT has opened a testing facility for products that run on 5G networks to help local companies check whether their connected devices are working. The country earmarked 19.8 billion...
E-Mart 24 starts selling lunch boxes with stock ownership coupons
Jul 14, 2021 00:25 am UTC| Economy Business
South Korean convenience store chain E-Mart 24 begun selling lunch boxes with randomly enclosed coupons conferring stock ownership in one of 10 companies, including Naver, Hyundai Motor, and Samsung Electronics. The...
SK Chemicals eyes 50% cut in greenhouse gas emissions by 2030
Jul 14, 2021 00:20 am UTC| Economy Nature
SK Chemicals Co. announced that it will focus on environmental, social, and governance (ESG) management as part of efforts to achieve net-zero carbon dioxide emissions by 2050. The South Korean chemical goods...
South Africa’s plan to move away from coal: 8 steps to make it succeed
Germany lowers voting age to 16 for the European elections
IceCube researchers detect a rare type of energetic neutrino sent from powerful astronomical objects